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A Member — I think Mr. Woodward told of a man that Avas going to 

 cut a tree and graft it, and live to see it grow over and the ti'ee bear 

 fruit. 1 would like to know hoAV that tree is coming on. 



Mr. WoodAvard — I believe I said at Kalamazoo that a neighbor has a 

 tree about fifteen inches in diameter, which it was thought could be 

 cut off and a graft put in down low and a success made of it. I was 

 verj' anxious to try it. So I got him to saw it off, but it was a little 

 late, the bark had begTin to tighten up, and I did not have the best 

 of succevSS. I put in some 22 or 24 gTafts, but only about two-thirds of 

 them grew. I will put in the rest this spring. In my own orchard I had 

 some limbs eight inches in diameter that I cut off and grafted two years 

 ago. I said at Kalamazoo that I had taken that kind of a graft and in 

 four years it had grown over and borne apples. It bore more apples this 

 year, and it is nearly grown over now. This 15-incli diameter tree I said 

 over at Kalamazoo I exi^ected to graft last spring, and which I did, I 

 expect in fifteen years it will grow up and I will be present at the 

 annual meeting and report. (Applause.) 



A Member — I would like to have question No. 13 answered : '^Who is 

 growing successfully the King David and Delicious apples in Michigan?" 



A. I have a neighbor who has some Delicious, but the ajjples seem 

 rather small. 



A Member — I have quite a good sized block of King David apples but 

 from my experience with them for several years I would advise going 

 slow. It is liable to be water-cored if the season is rainy. The Delicious 

 is a good apple, and where the soil is right and other conditions favor- 

 able it will do all right. 



Mr. Woodward — I had twenty trees of each, and they are both very 

 successful growers. There will be a tendency to water-core in the King 

 David, especially in rainy seasons. 



A Member — In 1901 I was in Arkansas working, and visited the orig- 

 inal tree of the King David apple, and I have a top-graft in my orchard 

 from that tree seven years old. It is a very fine growing apple, not as large 

 as the western apple, but in putting them away for winter use, I find 

 them water-cored, and none of them remained in perfect condition after 

 January. 



Q. Where Avere these apples grown? 



A. At Laurens. 



A Member — They are both new apples. I have seen them grown in 

 fifteen different states. King David, so far as I have observed, in Nor- 

 thern Michigan, Colorado, Wyoming, California, Washington, Oregon and 

 up in the Canadian Provinces, gives good promise; is about the same 

 size and color in Northern Michigan as it is in the west, ripening a little 

 earlier with them, along with the Jonathan, so that it is not a good 

 winter apple in the west. 



The Delicious, so far as I know, has not from the time it was first 

 introduced, proved satisfactory. The first two or three years they were 

 very uniform in size, but later they proved to be not uniform in size. 

 There would be a few nice large applies that would run 28 to the box, 

 but tlu'ee-fourths of them would vary ever so much in size and quality, 

 being rough in appearance and undesirable as a marketable product. The 

 Colorado people, especially the large orchard people, are grafting them 



